My good pastor read this whole chapter from John Flavel's The Mystery of Providence to our congregation last night. I have never heard him read something to lengthy to us; he obviously felt it was important. You'll see why if you click! Flavel knows his Bible. It's...
Books
Five Reasons to Buy Logos
Several concerned friends have contacted me about a blog post detailing Five Reasons Not to Buy Logos. I urge everyone considering such a purchase to read the five reasons, but you could save about 80% of your time reading that post by being a regular reader of...
Dempster on Samson
A perceptive observation from a book full of such insights into the Old Testament: Stephen Dempster: The structure of Judges shows that Israel gradually descends into a moral and political quagmire, and this is mirrored in the sequence of judges themselves, most of...
Grudem on Selfishness
I think the following comments from Grudem's Systematic Theology are very insightful—and needful for preachers. It's easy to preach so hard against selfishness that one erases part of the image of God! Other definitions of the essential character of sin have been...
Truth and Beauty
Derek Kidner is a commentator who writes not just insightfully but beautifully. Don't miss his commentaries on Genesis, Psalms (vol. 1 and vol. 2), Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. They are gifts to the church. I'm not familiar with Stephen Motyer (a relation to J. Alec, I...
NIV Books of the Bible
Biblica now has an edition of The Books of the Bible set in the NIV, though it’s just the New Testament (at least I can’t find an entire Bible on their website). The new edition is set in a serif typeface rather than the odd, hybrid typeface used for the TNIV editions...
BJU Press CHART Webinar on a Christian Worldview of Literature
Yesterday I gave a live BJU Press webinar from my home office to some of the best listeners anyone could ask for. Both of them seemed, as best I could tell, engaged and interested—at least judging by the fact that they stayed till the end. I'm told that we get a lot...
Must-See Video on the ESV Translation Committee
The Internet lets the whole world into doors that are otherwise of necessity locked. Check out this video of the ESV translators arguing (courteously but firmly) over the rendering of δούλος in 1 Cor 7. Incidentally, somebody paid to have all those busy scholars flown...
1 Marks Interview Series: Kerry McGonigal, Preaching and Teaching Preaching
Right click here to download the interview. In the first installment of the 1Marks interview series, I spoke with Dr. Robert Bell about Old Testament stuff. In the second, I spoke with one of my pastors, Dr. Robert Vincent, about church and personal evangelism. Today...
Great Hodge Quote
Regeneration secures right knowledge as well as right feeling; and right feeling is not the effect of right knowledge, nor is right knowledge the effect of right feeling. The two are inseparable effects of a work which affects the whole soul." —Cornelius Van Til...